User-Centred Design

Unit code: ICT10001
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit of study aims to introduce students to the concept of usability and the process of user-centred design as a method of achieving good usability outcomes in software development.

Content

• ISO user-centred design process and principles
• Usability as a component of software quality
• Understanding and modelling context of use (users, tasks and system environment)
• Requirements elicitation and specification
• Ethics of human research
• Usability design principles, guidelines and standards
• Conceptual design and iterative prototyping
• Usability evaluation methods
• Psychological principles

This unit is found in the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology.

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